vmci: type promotion bug in qp_host_get_user_memory()
authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Wed, 4 Jul 2018 09:33:34 +0000 (12:33 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 4 Oct 2018 00:00:46 +0000 (17:00 -0700)
[ Upstream commit 7fb2fd4e25fc1fb10dcb30b5519de257cfeae84c ]

The problem is that if get_user_pages_fast() fails and returns a
negative error code, it gets type promoted to a high positive value and
treated as a success.

Fixes: 06164d2b72aa ("VMCI: queue pairs implementation.")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c

index 8af5c26..b4570d5 100644 (file)
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ static int qp_host_get_user_memory(u64 produce_uva,
        retval = get_user_pages_fast((uintptr_t) produce_uva,
                                     produce_q->kernel_if->num_pages, 1,
                                     produce_q->kernel_if->u.h.header_page);
-       if (retval < produce_q->kernel_if->num_pages) {
+       if (retval < (int)produce_q->kernel_if->num_pages) {
                pr_debug("get_user_pages_fast(produce) failed (retval=%d)",
                        retval);
                qp_release_pages(produce_q->kernel_if->u.h.header_page,
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ static int qp_host_get_user_memory(u64 produce_uva,
        retval = get_user_pages_fast((uintptr_t) consume_uva,
                                     consume_q->kernel_if->num_pages, 1,
                                     consume_q->kernel_if->u.h.header_page);
-       if (retval < consume_q->kernel_if->num_pages) {
+       if (retval < (int)consume_q->kernel_if->num_pages) {
                pr_debug("get_user_pages_fast(consume) failed (retval=%d)",
                        retval);
                qp_release_pages(consume_q->kernel_if->u.h.header_page,